The strap holes can be glue-sized without irreveribly gluing the straps to the wires. A problem I find more than noisy straps is straps on the Baldwins which only had a bump in the wire instead of a loop. When the hole enlarges the strap tends to slide down the wire and hold the wippen up enough that the jack can't get under the hammer butt. A small amount of thin CA glue works for me. The trick is not getting so much on that it makes it hard to remove the strap. Bob Anderson Tucson, AZ
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